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Horton River Delta, Arctic Canada

In the past few centuries, a river in northwestern Canada stopped wandering and assumed a more direct route to the sea.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Horton River Delta, Arctic Canada.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using EO-1 ALI data from the NASA EO-1 team. Caption by Michon Scott.

Published September 4, 2012
Data acquired July 31, 2012